Devil woman cliff richard
Devil woman cliff richard
Перевод песни Devil woman (Cliff Richard)
Devil woman
Дьяволица
I’ve had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Give me the ring on your finger
Let me see the lines on your hand
I can see me a tall dark stranger
Giving you what you hadn’t planned
I drank the potion she offered me
I found myself on the floor
Then I looked in those big green eyes
And I wondered what I’d came there for
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Stay away, look out!
If you’re out on a moonlit night
Be careful of them neighbourhood strays
Of a lady with long black hair
Tryin’ to win you with her feminine ways
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
You’d better get out of there fast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you…
Меня преследовали сплошные неудачи
С того дня, когда я увидел кошку у своей двери.
И вот я пришёл к тебе, милая леди,
Отозвавшись на твой мистический зов.
Хрустальный шар на столе,
Показывающий будущее, прошлое,
Ту самую кошку со злыми глазами,
И я понял: это было заклятие, которое она наложила.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя исподтишка.
Дай мне кольцо со своего пальца,
Дай мне взглянуть на линии у тебя на ладони.
Я могу увидеть себя, высокую темноволосую незнакомку,
Дающую тебе то, чего ты не ожидал.
Я выпил зелье, которое она предложила мне,
Я обнаружил, что лежу на полу.
Тогда я посмотрел в эти большие зелёные глаза,
И я удивился, зачем я пришёл туда.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя исподтишка.
Держись подальше, берегись!
Если ты в лунную ночь не дома,
Остерегайся на этих окрестных тропках
Дамы с длинными чёрными волосами,
Старающейся завоевать тебя своими женскими приёмами.
Хрустальный шар на столе,
Показывающий будущее, прошлое,
Ту самую кошку со злыми глазами.
Лучше тебе убираться оттуда поскорее.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя…
Александр Булынко
ЖЕНЩИНА-ДЬЯВОЛ
Перевод песни «Devil Woman»
Клиффа Ричарда
Никогда я не верил примете дурной,
Но однажды увидел кота возле двери.
Так скажи мне, гадалка, что будет со мной,
Погадай мне, тебе я поверю.
На столе шар хрустальный свой раскрути,
Пусть расскажет – что будет, что было.
Кот со злыми глазами возник на пути
Не к добру эта темная сила.
— Ты с перста своего сними перстенек,
Я по линиям рук судьбу угадаю.
Незнакомец таинственный, снимем порок,
Все отдашь, если это познаешь.
И я выпил то зелье, что дала она,
И мгновенно рухнул на пол.
Я глядел в зелень глаз, где плясал сатана,
Позабыв, зачем я пришел.
Но если поздними полнолунными часами
Ты по окрестностям рискнешь бродить,
Колдунья с черными, длиннющими власами
Тебя своими чарами способна погубить.
На столе шар хрустальный раскрутит,
И представит вам сказку, как быль…
Если кот со злым сглазом подступит,
Никуда не ходи, а иди … ох, в монастырь.
Cliff Richard
DEVIL WOMAN
(Britten — Authors)
I’ve had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came here to you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I know it was a spell she’d cast
She’s just a devil woman with evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman she’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman with evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Give me the ring on your finger
Let me see the lines of your hand
I can see me a tall dark stranger
Giving you what you hadn’t planned
I drank the potion she offered me
I found myself on the floor
Then I locked in those big green eyes
And I wondered what I came there for
She’s just a devil woman with evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman she’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman with evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behindd
Stay awake look out
If you’re out on a moonlit night
Be careful of the neighborhood strays
Of a lady with long black hair
Tryin’ to win you with her feminine ways
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
You’d better get out oh there fast
«Devil Woman» lyrics
Cliff Richard Lyrics
I’ve had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind.
Give me the ring on your finger
Let me see the lines on your hand
I can see me a tall dark stranger
Giving you what you hadn’t planned
I drank the potion she offered me
I found myself on the floor
Then I looked in those big green eyes
And I wondered what I came there for.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind.
If you’re out on a moonlit night
Be careful of them neighbourhood strays
Of a lady with long black hair
Tryin’ to win you with her feminine ways
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
You’d better get out of there fast.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
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Devil woman
I’ve had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Give me the ring on your finger
Let me see the lines on your hand
I can see me a tall dark stranger
Giving you what you hadn’t planned
I drank the potion she offered me
I found myself on the floor
Then I looked in those big green eyes
And I wondered what I’d came there for
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Stay away, look out!
If you’re out on a moonlit night
Be careful of them neighbourhood strays
Of a lady with long black hair
Tryin’ to win you with her feminine ways
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
You’d better get out of there fast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you…
Дьяволица
Меня преследовали сплошные неудачи
С того дня, когда я увидел кошку у своей двери.
И вот я пришёл к тебе, милая леди,
Отозвавшись на твой мистический зов.
Хрустальный шар на столе,
Показывающий будущее, прошлое,
Ту самую кошку со злыми глазами,
И я понял: это было заклятие, которое она наложила.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя исподтишка.
Дай мне кольцо со своего пальца,
Дай мне взглянуть на линии у тебя на ладони.
Я могу увидеть себя, высокую темноволосую незнакомку,
Дающую тебе то, чего ты не ожидал.
Я выпил зелье, которое она предложила мне,
Я обнаружил, что лежу на полу.
Тогда я посмотрел в эти большие зелёные глаза,
И я удивился, зачем я пришёл туда.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя.
Она просто дьяволица
Со злыми помыслами.
Берегись дьяволицы,
Она доберётся до тебя исподтишка.
Держись подальше, берегись!
Если ты в лунную ночь не дома,
Остерегайся на этих окрестных тропках
Дамы с длинными чёрными волосами,
Старающейся завоевать тебя своими женскими приёмами.
Хрустальный шар на столе,
Показывающий будущее, прошлое,
Ту самую кошку со злыми глазами.
Лучше тебе убираться оттуда поскорее.
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Текст песни Devil Woman*
Перевод песни Devil Woman*
I’ve had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Give me the ring on your finger
Let me see the lines on your hand
I can see me a tall dark stranger
Giving you what you hadn’t planned
I drank the potion she offered me
I found myself on the floor
Then I looked in those big green eyes
And I wondered what I’d came there for
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Stay away, look out!
If you’re out on a moonlit night
Be careful of them neighbourhood strays
Of a lady with long black hair
Tryin’ to win you with her feminine ways
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
You’d better get out of there fast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
Devil Woman*
Меня преследовали неудачи
С того дня, как я увидел кошку у дверей,
И пришел к вам, милая леди,
Отвечая на ваш загадочный зов.
Хрустальный шар на столе,
Показывающий будущее и прошлое,
Та самая кошка со злыми глазами.
И я понял, что она наложила на меня заклятье
Она просто дьяволица,
И в ее мыслях лишь зло,
Берегись этой дьяволицы,
Она охотится на тебя.
Она просто дьяволица,
И в ее мыслях лишь зло,
Берегись этой дьяволицы,
Она нападет со спины.
Дай мне кольцо с твоей руки,
Позволь увидеть линии на руке,
Я вижу себя высоким незнакомым брюнетом,
Дающим тебе что-то незапланированное.
Я выпил зелье, которое она предложила
И оказался на полу,
А потом посмотрел в эти большие зеленые глаза
И подумал: Зачем я пришел сюда.
Она просто дьяволица,
И в ее мыслях лишь зло,
Берегись этой дьяволицы,
Она охотится на тебя.
Она просто дьяволица,
И в ее мыслях лишь зло,
Берегись этой дьяволицы,
Она нападет со спины.
Держись подальше, осторожней!
Она просто дьяволица,
И в ее мыслях лишь зло,
Берегись этой дьяволицы,
Она охотится на тебя.
Она просто дьяволица,
И в ее мыслях лишь зло,
Берегись этой дьяволицы,
Она получит тебя.
Cliff Richard Devil woman
Текст песни «Cliff Richard — Devil woman»
I’ve had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw the cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future-the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
Give me the ring on your finger
Let me see the lines on your hand
I can see me a tall dark stranger
Giving you what you hadn’t planned
I drank the potion she offered me
I found myself on the floor
Then I looked into those big green eyes
And I wondered what I’d come there for
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
If you’re out on a moonlit night
Be careful of them neighbourhood strays
Of a lady with long black hair
Tryin’ to win you with nymphetamine ways
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future-the past
The same cat with them evil eyes
You’d better get out of there fast
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you.
Devil Woman (Cliff Richard song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
«Devil Woman» is a 1976 single by British singer Cliff Richard from his album I’m Nearly Famous.
A worldwide hit on its original release, the song saw a resurgence in popularity after appearing in the film I, Tonya (2017), as the theme for the character of LaVona Golden, played by Allison Janney.
The song was written by Terry Britten and Christine Authors (who was the singer of the Family Dogg under the name Christine Holmes). The song is told from the point of a view of a man jinxed from an encounter with a stray cat with evil eyes, and his discovery that the psychic medium (a Gypsy) whose help he sought to break the curse was the one responsible for the curse in the first place. However, the nature of the curse is not made clear.
Devil woman cliff richard
An in-depth song analysis
Initially Released On: I’m Nearly Famous LP album (1976 May — UK — EMI EMC 3122)
Comments and Observations
Recording the Song: Devil Woman was recorded at Abbey Road in London on September 8 and 9, 1975, at sessions which also produced the popular Miss You Nights song. It was the first session produced by Bruce Welch exclusively and the first session recording with backing vocalists Tony Rivers, John Perry and Ken Gold, whom Cliff would use for many years to come. (Despite what is written in the album’s liner notes and various books, Tony Harding did not perform on the song.)
The song had been presented to Cliff months earlier by writer Terry Britten, but Cliff had rejected it. It was at producer Bruce Welch’s persistence that Cliff finally recorded the song. The song was presented to Cliff again at the same time as Miss You Nights and I Can’t As For Any More Than You. It was at this point that Cliff finally agreed to recorded it, although he remained reluctant.
It is unclear why Cliff was resistant to recording the song af first, but it has been suggested that he primarily did not like the lyrics and their fortune-telling theme. Bruce Welch persisted and Cliff finally relented after changing some of the lyrics to more overtly suggest that the «devil woman» was dangerous and should be avoided. It is unknown what the original lyrics were that Cliff changed. The lyrics as performed on the Kristine I’m A Song album, are sung in third person («He’s had nothing but bad luck. «), use the lyrics «I can see me a gypsy woman» instead of «I can see me a tall dark stranger» and «and he knew what he came there for» instead of and «I wonder what I came there for» in the second verse, and excludes the «stay away» and «look out» lyrics from the second bridge. It is known that Cliff added the «Stay away! Look out!» parts, however if this and the aforementioned changes are all that Cliff changed, then he changed very little at all for his version. He also likely changed the line to «I wonder what I came there for» which clearly obscures the meaning of what he, the singer, was doing there.
During the recording, Tony Clark apparently enthused that the song would be a hit in America. Perhaps the other didn’t believe him, but Tony’s words turned to be prophetic.
Releases: The song was released as a 7″ single in the UK by EMI on May 1976 with stock number «EMI 2448» and having the Cliff Richard-penned song Love On (Shine On), a song unique to this single, on the B-side. It was also the 8th track on the I’m Nearly Famous album and the second single taken from that album (with the first being Miss You Nights). It is Cliff’s 66th single release (approximately, as the counting of Cliff’s singles varies depending upon how they are counted). The single was reissued in 1981 with the same stock number, but this time with an original picture sleeve and a new record label. It was released in the USA as a 7″ single on a Rocket Record Company single (PIG-40574) with the same Love On (Shine On) song on the B-side and on the I’m Nearly Famous LP, the first Cliff LP release in the US since the Two A Penny soundtrack in 1968.
Devil Woman was released during a period when Cliff’s popularity and chart success were waning. It was the first top ten hit since 1973 and the third top ten hit of the 1970s. It entered the UK Top 50 chart on May 8, 1976, peaked at #9 on June 5, 1976, and spent 8 weeks in the chart. Although it was not a monster hit in the UK, it had big international success. It is also significant that it was a breakout hit for Cliff in the USA, being his first USA charting song since 1968’s Congratulations (which peaked at a meager #99). It entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on July 4, 1976, reached #6 for three consecutive weeks on September 26, October 3 and October 10, 1976, spending 22 weeks in the chart. It is Cliff’s highest charting hit on the USA charts ever, being certified gold (having sold a million copies) on October 20, 1976. The song has a curious distinction of being the only Cliff Richard song that charted higher in the USA than it did in Cliff’s home country of the UK.
The song is a truely pivotal song, ushering in a renaissance for Cliff. The I’m Nearly Famous LP is the first LP of many successful LPs that featured exclusive production by Shadow Bruce Welch. The album was also picked up by Rocket Record Company in the USA thanks to the insistance of Cliff’s friend, Elton John, where a major push behind the album and Devil Woman single was able to propel them both to great success. Today, the I’m Nearly Famous album is considered by fans and critics to be one of Cliff’s finest, with both Devil Woman and Miss You Nights still being played on the radio and performed in concerts today.
Cliff found out about the song’s success in America while performing a concert in Hong Kong. He was on stage, speaking to the audience during the concert, when Bruce walk across the stage and whispered the song had «made it» in America. Surely Cliff was chuffed at the news, although it’s unclear how he reacted while on stage.
The song was lyrically referenced years later in Cliff’s unique cover version of Elvis Presley’s All Shook Up. Released in late 2001 on the Alan Tarney produced Wanted album, the very unique arrangement of the song contains the lyric «she put a spell on me; she put a spell on me; she’s a devil woman» which was not in the original lyrics.
Writing the Song: The song was written based upon a riff that Terry Britten had developed. The riff had a mysterious vibe to it, like I Heard It Through The Grapevine, but Terry had not yet developed it into a song. He met Christine Holmes and played her the riff. Hearing the mysterious vibe of the song, she had to idea to use the theme from her book of ideas about a fortune telling seductress. Thus the pair went to her flat in Kensington and wrote the song together, with Terry writing the music and Christine writing the words. This song is the only collaboration they did together.
There has been a lot of confusion over exactly who wrote the song. Although Britten’s authorship has never been questioned, Holmes’ has varied greatly because of the many stage names she has used over the years. Her birth name is Christine Hodgson, for a while she was using the stage name Kristine Sparkle, and she was married to Barry Authors and sometimes using his family name professionally. Thus the writing credits vary radically, with the first name sometimes written as «Christine» or «Kristine» combined with variable last names, including «Holmes», «Hodgson», «Sparkle», «Authors» and «Anchor». One source even credits the song to Barry Authors himself, which is clearly an error. But the most proper credit is for Christine Holmes as that is the name she finally settled on using. Curiously, although Cliff went on to record many Terry Britten songs, he never recorded any other songs written by Christine Holmes.
Christine Holmes recorded the song herself under the stage name «Kristine» (no last name) on her 1976 I’m A Song album (it was a single in Canada only), although it remains unclear if she recorded the song before or after Cliff released and had a hit with his version. A sample of the Kristine version can be heard HERE.
USA Single Mix: On the strength of the material for I’m Nearly Famous, particularly Devil Woman and Miss You Nights, Cliff was signed to the Rocket Record Company in the USA. A decision was made to slightly remaster the song Devil Woman, giving the song more punch with a stronger bass and drum. It was this mix that was used on the USA single, while the album had the standard worldwide single/album mix. A comparison of these mixes can be heard HERE. The first part heard is the original album version, followed by the USA single mix (both the intro and the fade are heard).
Years later, this mix appeared on the 1989 CD issue of 40 Golden Greats. Why was this mix used for this compilation? It remains a mystery why, but when this 1989 CD compilation was prepared of the original 1978 LP compilation, it is clear that the compilers chose to recompile the tracks and not use the original masters prepared for the LP. Where the LP had several mock stereo versions of the early songs that were recorded only in mono, the CD reverted to the original mono versions as mock stereo was no longer in fashion by the late 1980s. It is assumed the that compilers went looking for what they thought was the best master of Devil Woman and inadvertantly picked up the USA single mix.
The Song’s Meaning: Cliff believes the song to be about the occult and serves as a warning against it, which is the reason he changes the song’s lyrics. Songwriter Christine Holmes states is not really about the occult, simply about a fortune telling woman seducing a man. Bruce Welch agrees, stating that it’s about a seductress using her sexual prowess to seduce the song’s antagonist. The seductress just happens to be a mystical fortune teller, which fits the song’s theme of the evil seductress. Indeed, the song’s lyrics never explicitly mention the occult; the implication of the occult can be derived in the song’s divination theme and the «evil» and «devil» references. Divination is explicitly forbidden in Christian teachings from the Bible (Deuteronomy 18:10), but other than this reference, divination is not necessarily Satanic or evil.
In interviews, Cliff very often accounts a story of the song for which he is very proud. He tells of having been contacted by a fan in Australia who told of being lost and having no direction in life. She had been considering and dabbling in the occult as a means to finding her needed direction. Upon hearing Cliff’s recording of Devil Woman and taking the lyrics to heart, she turned away from the occult and became a Christian very involved in her church. Cliff has told this story many, many times over the years and apparently it’s a great source of pride.
Structure and Lyrics
Below is the structure of the fullest, most complete version of the originally released song as available on the standard issues of the I’m Nearly Famous album.
-Guitar Intro
Guitar intro
-Verse 1
I’ve had nothing but bad luck
Since the day I saw that cat at my door
So I came into you sweet lady
Answering your mystical call
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
And I knew it was a spell she cast
-Chorus 1
Ooh!
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind
-Bridge 1
Long guitar note
-Verse 2
Give me the ring on your finger
Let me see the lines on your hand
I can see me a tall dark stranger
Giving you what you hadn’t planned
I drank the potion she offered me
I found myself on the floor
Then I looked in those big green eyes
And I wonder what I came there for
-Chorus 2
Ooh!
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you from behind, from behind
-Bridge 2
Stacatto guitar notes with Cliff whispers Stay away! Look out!
-Verse 3
If you’re out on a moonlit night
Be careful of the neighbourhood strays
Of a lady with long black hair
Trying to win you with her feminine ways
Crystal ball on the table
Showing the future, the past
Same cat with them evil eyes
You better get out of there fast
-Chorus 3
Ooh!
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
-Chorus 4
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you. Ah, stay away!
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you (get you!)
-Chorus 5
She’s just a devil woman
With evil on her mind
Beware the devil woman
She’s gonna get you
She’s just a devil woman.
There are four known non-live variations of the original Devil Woman They are:
—Devil Woman (Standard Release)
—Devil Woman (USA Single Version)
—Devil Woman (Their 40 Big Ones Edit Version)
—Devil Woman (My Kinda Life Version)
The standard release was used on the original I’m Nearly Famous LP and the original UK Devil Woman single. There was a punchier mix for the USA single release (although the USA album had the same mix as the UK), that also had a slightly earlier fade. In 1998, this USA single mix superceded the original mix and has been on all releases since then. In 1987 a Cliff Richard and The Shadows compiliaton was released in New Zealand called Their 40 Big Ones. It included a very quick fade so that only the third chorus is heard.
In 1992, Cliff released a French compilation called My Kinda Life (EMI 7994322) in which he reworked several of his previously released songs, enhancing them with new vocals and/or instrumentation. Included in this was a new version of Devil Woman to which guitars, drums and percussion (but no new vocals) were added over the existing backing track. The drums are much stronger and the guitars have more intensity, giving the song a harsher and more «evil» sound. In addition, the fade out is extended by an additional 10 seconds, allowing for all of chorus 5 and part of chorus 6 to be heard.
Song Section Lyric/Part Devil Woman (Standard Release) Devil Woman (USA Single Version) Devil Woman (Their 40 Big Ones Edit Version) Devil Woman (My Kinda Life Version) Guitar Intro Guitar Intro YES YES YES YES Verse 1 I’ve had nothing but bad luck YES YES YES YES Since the day I saw that cat at my door YES YES YES YES So I came into you sweet lady YES YES YES YES Answering your mystical call YES YES YES YES Crystal ball on the table YES YES YES YES Showing the future, the past YES YES YES YES Same cat with them evil eyes YES YES YES YES And I knew it was a spell she cast YES YES YES YES Chorus 1 Ooh! YES YES YES YES She’s just a devil woman YES YES YES YES With evil on her mind YES YES YES YES Beware the devil woman YES YES YES YES She’s gonna get you YES YES YES YES She’s just a devil woman YES YES YES YES With evil on her mind YES YES YES YES Beware the devil woman YES YES YES YES She’s gonna get you from behind YES YES YES YES Bridge 1 Long guitar note YES YES YES YES Verse 2 Give me the ring on your finger YES YES YES YES Let me see the lines on your hand YES YES YES YES I can see me a tall dark stranger YES YES YES YES Giving you what you hadn’t planned YES YES YES YES I drank the potion she offered me YES YES YES YES I found myself on the floor YES YES YES YES Then I looked in those big green eyes YES YES YES YES And I wonder what I came there for YES YES YES YES Chorus 2 Ooh! YES YES YES YES She’s just a devil woman YES YES YES YES With evil on her mind YES YES YES YES Beware the devil woman YES YES YES YES She’s gonna get you YES YES YES YES She’s just a devil woman YES YES YES YES With evil on her mind YES YES YES YES Beware the devil woman YES YES YES YES She’s gonna get you from behind, from behind YES YES YES YES Bridge 2 Stacatto guitar notes with Cliff whispers Stay away! Look out! YES YES YES YES Verse 3 If you’re out on a moonlit night YES YES YES YES Be careful of the neighbourhood strays YES YES YES YES Of a lady with long black hair YES YES YES YES Trying to win you with her feminine ways YES YES YES YES Crystal ball on the table YES YES YES YES Showing the future, the past YES YES YES YES Same cat with them evil eyes YES YES YES YES You better get out of there fast YES YES YES YES Chorus 3 Ooh! YES YES YES YES She’s just a devil woman YES YES YES YES With evil on her mind YES YES YES YES Beware the devil woman YES YES YES YES She’s gonna get you YES YES YES YES She’s just a devil woman YES YES YES YES With evil on her mind YES YES YES YES Beware the devil woman YES YES YES YES She’s gonna get you YES YES YES YES Chorus 4 She’s just a devil woman YES YES YES but fade ends on (She’s. ) lyric YES With evil on her mind YES YES — YES Beware the devil woman YES YES — YES She’s gonna get you. Ah, stay away! YES YES — YES with additional effects added to the Ah, stay away! lyric She’s just a devil woman YES YES — YES With evil on her mind YES YES — YES Beware the devil woman YES YES — YES She’s gonna get you (get you!) YES YES — YES but without the additional (get you!) lyric Chorus 5 She’s just a devil woman YES YES — YES With evil on her mind YES YES — YES Beware the devil woman YES YES — YES She’s gonna get you YES — — YES She’s just a devil woman YES — — YES With evil on her mind — — — YES Beware the devil woman — — — YES She’s gonna get you — — — YES Chorus 6 She’s just a devil woman — — — YES With evil on her mind — — — YES Beware the devil woman. — — — YES
A major chord is made up of 3 notes played simultaneously: the root note (after which the chord is named), the note four semi-tones higher than the root note (an interval of a major 3rd, hence this note is called «the 3rd»), and the note 7 semi-tones higher than the root note (an interval of a perfect 5th, hence this note is called «the 5th»). So the major chords based on the D blues pentatonic scale and their spellings are:
Chord Spelling Root 3rd 5th D D F# A F F A C G G B D A A C# E C C E G
This set of chords has been termed the (D) «blues harmonic scale». Note, however, that all of these chords except F major contain notes that are not themselves part of the blues pentatonic scale on which the chords are based:
In Devil Woman, the riff that starts the record is a sequence of dyads. A dyad is a pair of notes played simultaneously, so a major chord with one note removed is, by definition, a dyad. The specific chord progression on which the riff is based is D, G, F, C and D (I-IV-bIII-bVII-I) with chord degrees 5, 3, 5, 3 and 3 making up the notes removed to produce the dyads. The riff is repeated twice as the introduction, then two more times as the backing to the first verse. The tune of the verse uses notes from the blues pentatonic scale, giving the verse of Devil Woman a very bluesy flavour and making it a perfect example of a blues melody being harmonised by blues harmonic major chords.
There is no new musical material in the rest of the record: two passes of the riff, the final verse and pre-chorus before concluding with repeated choruses. Overall the song exhibits a reasonably high degree of musical invention mixing blues material cast in a relatively modern harmonic setting with traditional tonal music.
These are the known statistics for the various countries’ music charts. If you can fill in the missing information or know of charting information in other countries, please let me know at the email address listed at the bottom of this page.
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Week 23 Week 24 UK Official Top 50 Chart Entry Date: May 8, 1976 41 24 21 11 9
(June 5, 1976)12 15 33 New Musical Express Top 30 Chart Entry Date: May 8, 1976 27 23 18 11 7
(June 5, 1976)10 16 19 USA Billboard Hot 100 Chart Entry Date: July 4, 1976 87 77 67 57 47 42 34 30 20 17 13 7 6
(September 26, 1976)6
(October 3, 1976)6
(October 10, 1976)7 14 32 51 61 80 80 USA Cash Box Top 100 Chart Entry Date: June 26, 1976 88 79 70 62 57 43 30 24 17 14 12 9 7 6 5
(October 2, 1976)5
(October 9, 1976)5
(October 16, 1976)16 26 33 36 42 44 67 USA Record World Top 40 Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 5 during a run of an unknown number of weeks on the chart Australia Chart (Top 5 Only) Entry Date: October 4, 1976 4 3
(October 11, 1976)3
(October 18, 1976)5 Note: It’s known that the song ran for 26 weeks on the chart,
however the scale and placings of that run are unknown beyond the Top 5Canada CHUM Chart Entry Date: August 18, 1976 28 20 14 12 3
(September 15, 1976)3
(September 22, 1976)3
(September 29, 1976)5 4 9 11 14 20 22 30 Canada RPM Top 100 Chart Entry Date: July 10, 1976 98 84 74 66 51 43 32 23 21 19 9 8 8 4
(October 9, 1976)4
(October 16, 1976)4
(October 23, 1976)8 11 15 22 26 28 40 France Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 10 on October 1, 1976 during a run of 13 weeks on the chart Hong Kong Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 9 during a run of an unknown number of weeks on the chart India Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 10 during a run of an unknown number of weeks on the chart Ireland Chart Entry Date: June 5, 1976 16 10 7 6
(June 26, 1976)6
(July 3, 1976)8 13 20 24 29 Italy Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 39 during a run of an unknown number of weeks on the chart Malta Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 4 during a run of an unknown number of weeks on the chart New Zealand Chart Entry Date: July 2, 1976 40 18 18 5
(July 23, 1976)10 7 6 7 6 6 9 9 11 9 7 15 14 20 21 25 32 31 32 40 Norway Top 10 Chart Entry Date: June 21, 1976 9 10 8 7
(July 19, 1976)9 7
(August 2, 1976)South Africa Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 1 during a run of 15 weeks on the chart Thailand Chart Entry Date: [DATE UNKNOWN] Peak at # 8 during a run of an unknown number of weeks on the chart
Here are all the known UK releases of the song:
Devil Woman has been performed on most all tours following its release. Cliff has taken to doing a particular cat-like dance on stage while performing the song.
More information on Cliff’s performance of Devil Woman on tour and various live performances will be determined at a future date.
Use in Movies and TV programs
Sheet music as published in the UK.
Sheet music as published in the USA.
Sheet music as published in the Australia.
Promotional Videos and TV Performances
There was a promotional video made of Devil Woman that features just Cliff and a microphone on a black soundstage. The entire video uses optical effects to show repeated images of Cliff singing the song that often fade into the background. The performance is a lip synch of the album/version of the song. And the video has never been commercially released.
Televised performances of the song will be documented at length at a future date.
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Does anyone know about the version that appears on the NZ comp «Their 40 Big Ones?»?? I can provide a sample if it helps. It fades out very early, earlier than any other version i’ve ever heard.
«In one 48-hour period in September 1975, Welch produced Devil Woman and Miss You Nights. These two records, more than any others, were to set the tone for the rest of his career.
It was [the demo] version of [Miss You Nights] that Welch took down to Cliff’s home in Weybridge one summer evening along with Devil Woman written by Terry Britten and I Can’t Ask For Anything More Than You by Ken Gold and Michael Denne.
‘Cliff put the cassette of Miss You Nights on in his music room and the hairs stood up on his arms,’ remembers Welch. He’d already been given Devil Woman some months before but he hadn’t done anything with it. I pushed him. I said, ‘Why on earth haven’t you recorded this song?’
Devil Woman had started off as a riff which Terry Britten couldn’t find words for and then he linked up with Christine Holmes, a singer and children’s television presenter who had been produced by Dave Mackay, and she gave it a title and wrote the story of a seductive fortune teller.
‘I had my ideas about this fortune teller song in my notebook and Terry had this guitar riff and we just put them together,’ says Holmes. ‘We wrote it together in my flat.’
‘I knew it had to be a rock number. Helen Reddy had done a song called Angie Baby which was a really spooky song and used sounds in the mix that hadn’t been used too much in pop music. In my mind I knew that I wanted Devil Woman to sound similarly spooky. We both very much knew what we wanted and Cliff copies the demo exactly.’
When Cliff went into Abbey Road to record the three songs, Welch, as producer, retained Alan Tarney and Terry Britten from Dave Mackay’s rhythm section but added Graham Todd on keyboards and Tony Rivers, John Perry and Ken Gold on backing vocals.
‘It was a great session the day we did Devil Woman,’ remembers Terry Britten. The engineer Tony Clark was standing in front of the speakers as it was played back and as quick as a flash he said, America! This is gonna be a smash in America!‘
Tony Clark remembers the emotion of the session. ‘You could feel something was happening,’ he says. ‘The actual groove of the track was something instant. When I said it was made for America I was probably more excited than anyone else. In those days it wasn’t normal to stand up in the control room and shout out loud.’
Three months later, with Devil Woman and Miss You Nights still unreleased as singles, the same team returned to the studio to complete an album of the songs that Welch had gathered.
Miss You Nights was to be the first single released, in February 1976, because there was some concern that Devil Woman might get confused with the Electric Light Orchestra’s Evil Woman which had entered the charts in January. It sold impressively and returned Cliff to the top twenty for the first time in two years, but it was Devil Woman, released two months later, which re-established him as a chart force.
‘I was sitting in my kitchen in Espom and the DJ said he was going to play a record and we should try and guess who it was,’ remembers Terry Britten of the first radio play he heard. ‘He played this record and my ears went up when I heard the first couple of bars. Then everyone started ringing in and getting it wrong and he played it again and there was this tremendous excitement that this was Cliff Richard. No one could believe that Cliff could make a record like this.’
‘Devil Woman sound like something that the Rolling Stones or at least Elton John would record. The voice was as clean as ever but the sound of the track was dirty and swampy. Cliff had never worked around a riff like this before and this story of seduction conjured up images of dark backstreets in New Orleans; of a world a million miles away from Take Me High.’
The writer, Christine Holmes, says the song is about a man who is seduced by a fortune teller.
‘It’s a very rude song actually,’ admits Holmes. ‘But I’m not sure Cliff was aware how rude it was. My whole thing was to convey that women can be very spooky and clever when they try to snare a guy. They can force a guy into doing things he wouldn’t normally do. They can be witches when they want to be.’
Cliff has indeed interpreted the lyrics in a different way, believing it to be a warning against dabbling in the occult. This view was endorsed for him when a young woman from Australia wrote to him to say that the song had been instrumental in her Christian conversion. ‘I heeded the warning,’ she told him.
The music press was enthusiastic about the single, seeing it as a definite return to form. There was talk of the Cliff Richard Renaissance. The record climbed into the top ten, eventually becoming his biggest international seller since The Young Ones.
Elton John’s manager, John Reid, heard Miss You Nights and wanted to release it in America on his three-year-old record label, Rocket. Elton has long been a fan (he could remember seeing him in pantomime at the Palladium) and it was thought that maybe Rocket could launch Cliff in America in the way that it had recently reversed the fortunes of Neil Sedaka in his home country.
Rocket’s Executive Vice President in America was Tony King, a flamboyant English bachelor who had once worked for the Beatles’ Apple label, and was closely acquainted with almost everyone who mattered in the rock industry.
He listened to the album and concluded that although Miss You Nights was a good song, it was Devil Woman that stood the better chance of becoming a hit. He had the track remastered to match the sound quality of American radio and it was released in June.
‘We cut it really hot,’ says King. ‘Then I brought in publicist Sharon Lawrence who said that if we really want to crack America, Cliff would have to be brought over for a month to do press and radio. Peter Gormley agreed and so I went on the road with Cliff.
‘We had to promote him as someone fresh,’ says Tony King. Devil Woman started picking up interest and getting added to secondary stations in each area but we still needed to crack a primary station. Within a month it began to edge in at the lower end of the charts and then we knew there was a chance it could make it.’
‘The most important radio stations to get on were those controlled by RKO. If you got on an RKO station it looked as though you were going to make it. The chain was run by a man named Paul Drew who was a friend of mine and of Elton John and of John Lennon but he was a tough guy and he wouldn’t do anything to give me a break.’
‘However because he was a friend, if he saw that I has something that looked as if it had legs he would maybe tip it a little in my direction. But only if the evidence was that he couldn’t be accused of helping out a friend.’
‘When Devil Woman looked as though it was really happening he gave us the break that really cracked it. He gave us the number one station in Boston and that gave us a good chart position the next week. Once it performed well on that station the rest fell like dominoes.’ The record entered the US charts at number 88 at the end of June and slowly began to climb through July and August.
When it finally broke into the top ten Cliff was playing in Leningrad and Moscow on a ground-breaking Russian visit— the first by a Western rock artist. It was a strange experience of playing to a mixture of sober-suited party officials and excited teenagers, with security leaping into action every time anyone showed any physical signs of appreciation.
‘We were calling back home to get the Billboard chart positions all the time,’ remembers Terry Britten. ‘The news that it was going up really kept us going out there.’
Devil Woman went on to reach number five in the Billboard charts and to become an American million-seller. [. ] When Devil Woman entered the Billboard charts Bruce Welch walked across the stage during a concert in Hong Kong and whispered the news in [Cliff’s] ear.»
However, Devil Woman sounded like a HIT the moment we heard the track, and when we began to put our voices on top, it was clear that it had big HIT written all over it.
When the vocals were all done we sat back with a feeling of huge satisfaction at the results, what a successful first three recordings they were, and when Devil Woman was picked up by Elton John’s Rocket label, and we saw it then storm the US charts, well words could not describe our satisfaction at a job so well done. It is very rare in session work that you have such an amazing success, ie Devil Woman, and on the same session such a beautiful masterpiece as Miss You Nights. The lead vocal by Cliff is perfect, complemented by the stunning wall of harmonies surrounding him, and of course the beautiful orchestral backdrop seals the deal. So we got three hits out of that first session, I’d never done that before nor since.
[Cliff] sang ballads brilliantly but did love the rock style songs that Terry Britten could write for him, those like Devil Woman, Carrie and Under Lock And Key.»
!@# is above really 2019?
Devil Woman (USA Single Version)
In the USA, it was decided that Devil Woman was a good single, but it needed a little more punch. So it was remastered, giving the bass and drums more kick. In addition, the song’s fade out was changed to slightly earlier, cutting the last two lines of the fifth chorus— it’s assumed that this earlier fade was inadvertant and done by an engineer who was a little too fast on the knob. This version was on the USA single only (Rocket Record Company PIG-2210) with the I’m Nearly Famous album that was issued in the US having the standard master that was released worldwide. This version first appeared elsewhere on the 1989 40 Golden Greats CD, then reappeared on the 1998 1970s album and has been released on all compilations and reissues since. It’s not entirely clear why the USA mix was used on all these compilations and has since supplanted the original mix, however, it is thought that this was done in error when the 40 Golden Greats CD was first compiled. Several songs on that CD were slightly remastered from the album’s LP counterpart, so the wrong master may have been accidentally chosen for the project. A comparison of these mixes can be heard HERE. The first part heard is the original album version, followed by the USA single mix (both the intro and the fade are heard).
Devil Woman (Their 40 Big Ones Edit Version)
This version is an early fade, cutting all but the first chorus of the repeated ending.
The Best Of Cliff Richard And The Shadows Mix
This is available only on a promo flexi-disc, meant to promote the Reader’s Digest compilation called The Best Of Cliff Richard And The Shadows. It includes a medley of Cliff and The Shadows songs, interspersed with Alan Freeman talking about them. The songs, in order of appearance, are: Bachelor Boy, Move It, Living Doll, Please Don’t Tease, It’ll Be Me, The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, In The Country, The Day I Met Marie, All My Love, Congratulations, Power To All Our Friends, Apache, Wonderful Land, Dance On!, Foot Tapper, Devil Woman, Miss You Nights, We Don’t Talk Anymore, Carrie and finally Visions.
